Setting up SSH Connection

su - root

service sshd start

or

/etc/init.d/sshd start

then make sure your firewall is open on port 22

Open flle /etc/sysconfig/iptables:
Append rule as follows:
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
/sbin service restart iptables.


To disable firewall completelty
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system-config-securitylevel

http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/soft-netfirew.html